{"id":34442,"date":"2018-05-22T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34442"},"modified":"2018-05-22T07:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:08:25","slug":"yes-virginia-there-is-a-deep-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34442","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Since the \u201cRussiagate\u201d probe began, US president Donald Trump and his supporters have used lots of bandwidth raging against what they refer to as the \u201cDeep State.\u201d Does the Deep State exist? If so, what is it, and are its forces arrayed specifically against Donald Trump and\u00a0 his administration?<\/p>\n

Yes, the Deep State exists \u2014 probably more so at one end of its numerous definitions and less so at the other, but to some degree at both ends.<\/p>\n

At the seemingly more benign end, the Deep State is simply what one might think of as the \u201cpermanent government\u201d \u2014 the army of bureaucrats and functionaries whose careers span multiple administrations. Like all career employees of large organizations as groups, they tend to fear and resist change, and their sheer mass has an inertial effect. They energetically do things the old way and drag their feet on new things.<\/p>\n

At the end dismissed by mainstream commentators as \u201cconspiracy theory,\u201d the Deep State is an invisible second government which acts in a coordinated manner to protect its prerogatives and advance its interests and favored policies versus changes supposedly demanded by \u201cthe people\u201d via their elected representatives in Congress and the presidency. The premier example of this view is the claim that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA and the military industrial complex because (in one version) he was about to get the US out of Vietnam.<\/p>\n

If that end of the spectrum sounds crazy to you, consider:<\/p>\n

Former FBI attorney Lisa Page and former FBI deputy counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok, while working on a pre-election investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign and the Russian government, exchanged text messages with incendiary content such as \u201cthere\u2019s no way [Trump] gets elected \u2014 but I\u2019m afraid we can\u2019t take that risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yes, Virginia, There is a Deep State Since the \u201cRussiagate\u201d probe began, US president Donald Trump and his supporters have used lots of bandwidth raging against what they refer to as the \u201cDeep State.\u201d Does the Deep State exist? If so, what is it, and are its forces arrayed specifically against Donald Trump and\u00a0 his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,5493,199,7844,301,528,15282,11716,827],"class_list":["post-34442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-counterpunch","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-military-industrial-complex","tag-russiagate","tag-thomas-knapp","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34443,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34442\/revisions\/34443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}